J. Breu, The Elder, The Investiture of King Ferdinand I.
 
Date Description Source Reference
1530 A.D. G. 371. 

Single bell tent, banner, ball apex, line decoration on roof, decorated valance with tufts, decoration around rectangular door, horizontal lines across back of tent. 

G. 372. 

One pavilion and two bell tents. 

Pavilion, spike, ball apex and cone, panel lines and heraldic heater on roof, sculloping below valance, two point guy rope attachment. 

Bell tent, banner, ball and apron apex, panel lines on roof and walls, some valance decoration. 

Bell tent, ball apex, panel lines on roof, cross hatch decoration on valance, two point guy rope attachment. 

G. 373. 

One pavilion and one bell tent. 

Pavilion, banner, ball apex, decoration around valance, sculloping below valance, two point guy rope attachment, guy rope pegs, and it looks like some cooking is taking place inside the door. 

Bell tent, banner, ball and apron apex, sculloping below valance, single point guy rope attachment, pole, guy rope pegs, a woman is tending a cooking fire between the open door flaps.

J. Breu, The Elder. G. 367 - 389; H. 54. The Investiture of King Ferdinand I with the hereditary Austrian Dominions by the Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Ausburg, 1530. Nuremberg. Printed from twenty three blocks by H. Stayner at Augsburg and published by Hans Tirol in 1536. Geisberg, M., The German Single-leaf Woodcut: 1500 - 1550, Volume 1, New York, 1974, p. 338 - 362.

Other works by Jörg Breu, the Elder:

The Battle of Pavia

The Battle of Zama


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